About Gloria
Gloria Stahl is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and stress. She works with clients struggling with self-esteem, life changes, panic, and LGBT-related concerns. Gloria aims to make therapy practical and easy to understand for worried parents and busy adults.
She holds a Master of Social Work from Campbellsville University and uses plain, usable tools in sessions. Gloria draws on approaches that focus on thoughts, feelings, and values to help people feel steadier day to day.
Background and approach
Her style is warm, down-to-earth, and nonjudgmental, so clients can talk honestly about what’s hard. In sessions she teaches simple skills to manage anxiety and mood, calm intense reactions, and change patterns that cause pain. She also helps people cope with caregiving stress, body image struggles, isolation, and midlife concerns.
The work often includes learning mindfulness skills, changing unhelpful thinking, and practicing emotion regulation. Gloria offers a structured yet supportive environment where people can set clear goals and track progress. She focuses on what works in real life rather than only talking about feelings.
That practical emphasis helps people use new skills between sessions. Therapy with Gloria usually includes a mix of skill-building and emotional exploration. Sessions are collaborative - she and the client decide what to prioritize.
Gloria practices in Kentucky and speaks English.
Online approaches that focus on values and skills
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most to them and take steps toward those values despite hard feelings. It can be useful for chronic anxiety, depression, and life transitions where motivation or meaning feels low. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, behaviors, and feelings interact and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for panic attacks, mood concerns, and social anxiety. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on understanding and reshaping strong emotions to improve how someone relates to themselves and others; it can help with grief, loss, and deep emotional pain.Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist will work collaboratively with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That means starting with what feels most pressing, trying techniques in short cycles, and adjusting over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversations, while phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, between-session support, or when someone prefers writing. These options make therapy easier to fit into work, caregiving, or school schedules and allow consistent progress from wherever a person is located.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English